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Improving Pig Survivability

Wean to finish surviability

Ag Decision Maker

 If pig production is profitable, lowering the mortality rate improves net income. However, it can be difficult to determine what cost can be incurred to lower the mortality rate and achieve a profit. The purpose of this fact sheet is not to determine the cost of mortality mitigation strategies but to help producers determine the income opportunity of improving mortality in their operation as compared to the potential cost of a strategy to lower mortality. Mortality reduction strategies and costs will most certainly vary among operations and situations. 

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Videos

Survivability of Weaned Pigs

  Dr. Mike Tokach and Madie Wensley talk about how to improve the survivability rate of weaned pigs 

Part 1: Non-Infectious Factors

Part 1 focuses on the non-infectious factors contributing to mortality, and their magnitude of impact. 

Part 2: Infectious Factors

 Part 2 focuses on the infectious factors that contribute to post-weaning mortality in the swine industry. 

Drivers of Mortality Project

In this video, Dr. Edison Magalhaes from the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine explains his research on whole herd drivers of wean-to-finish mortality. He develop an automated statistical model to capture and merge multiple data streams into a single cohort report. Then, he used that cohort report to measure the association between specific parameters and wean-to-finish mortality as well as forecast closeout mortality based on multiple variables.  

Peer review Publications

Review of non-infectious factors (pdf)

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Review of infectious factors (pdf)

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Podcasts

Wean-to-finish mortality, non-infectious causes

Wean-to-finish mortality, non-infectious causes

Wean-to-finish mortality, non-infectious causes

 Listen to Dr. Jordan Gebhardt discuss the causes of post-weaning mortality on the SwineIt podcast.  

Wean-to-finish mortality, infectious causes

Wean-to-finish mortality, non-infectious causes

Wean-to-finish mortality, non-infectious causes

 Listen to Dr. Jordan Gebhardt discuss the causes of post-weaning mortality on the SwineIt podcast.  

Additional publications

Staged loading procedure for the load-out of market pigs

Evaluation of staged loading procedure for the load-out of market pigs to prevent the transfer of swine pathogen-contaminated particles from livestock trailers to the barn


 Derald Holtkamp, Chelsea Ruston, Daniel Linhares

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Select photos courtesy of National Pork Board and the Pork Checkoff. Des Moines, IA USA.


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